East Galveston Bay Fishing Report

Jul 3, 2024

GOOD. 89 degrees. Scattered catches of trout over shell reefs on live natural baits and soft plastics. Better fish coming from those wading the shorelines with artificial lures. Report by Captain David Dillman, Galveston Bay Charter Fishing. Plenty of various sized speckled trout, black drum, sheepshead, and reds caught on live shrimp, croakers, and topwater lures. Alligator gar has been abundant. Report by Captain Shane Rilat, North Jetty Bait Camp. Surface water temperature 85.9 degrees in East Galveston Bay. The Bay is still very off-colored, with better looking water over by the Ferry Landing, but fishing is continuing to improve for us in the Bay over the last week or so. You will need to weed through a number of undersized trout to find the better fish. We are still catching them around protected shorelines over shell pockets, as well as redfish along the grass lines and over shell, and a few nice flounder busting bait up around grass lines and over shallow shell beds, with good current flow. The lighter the jig head the better, 1/16-¼ ounce, determined by the wind and current, and tails with paddles, performed the best for us again this week, as we were utilizing Anahuac based, WACky Shad Xl's and top performing colors varied, depending upon water clarity and light conditions, with Salt and Pepper with Chartreuse Spike it tail, being a favorite of the fish this week. Our clients are still finding good success using Fish Smack Popping corks with a 1-2 foot leader above a pink tinted shrimp imitation lure, or Tails with a 1/16 ounce jig head, with a hard pop and a 5-8 second pause gathering the most strikes. The topwater bite has also been good when utilized on our early morning and late afternoon trips, so if you like throwing walking baits, now is the perfect time to get on the water and make it happen. We are starting to see more solid fish show up on reefs in the middle portion of the bay, which is getting better as the days go by. We also found a few birds working in the middle portion of the bay over the past couple days and found some solid trout under them. Report by Captain Jeff Brandon, Get the Net Guide Services, LLC.

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